EWBpod - Educating While Black Podcast

EWBpod - Educating While Black Podcast

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EWBpod - Educating While Black Podcast episodes

  • Ep 4 Teaser: ‘A Change is as Good as a Rest’, with Yansé.
    On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Yansé (@YanseCooper) recount moments on the journey of growing into radicalism. 
    We talk about having integrity in ones own actions and the blatant hypocrisy of a system that creates and upholds a sense of those who deserve empathy in times of misfortune vs those whose misfortune is weaponised against them.
    Having access to people who can provide space to both escape to and be vulnerable with, (while maintaining accountability) highlights the importance of seeking community to weather the growing pains associated with finding our optimal environment to thrive.
    1 min
  • ‘The Audacity of Taking Up Space’, with Shari
    On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Shari (@ShariForTheCulture) bring a Canadian flavour to the conversation of understanding and utilising your identity to uplift yourself and others.
    We talk about the freedoms - and the underlying sense of self-awareness - associated with choosing a less prescriptive degree level subject of study and how this sense of 'entitled to do anything' influenced the notion of travelling to teach abroad as standard fare.  
    Using a poignant career moment as a catalyst to re-invest in self, reset and move forward, brings home the idea that solid foundations of self-assuredness allow you to bring your whole self to the task at hand...every time.
    The audacity to confidently dream and live, in Black!
    57 min
  • Ep 3 Teaser: ‘The Audacity of Taking Up Space’, with Shari

    On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Shari (@ShariForTheCulture) bring a Canadian flavour to the conversation of understanding and utilising your identity to uplift yourself and others.


    We talk about the freedoms - and the underlying sense of self-awareness - associated with choosing a less prescriptive degree level subject of study and how this sense of 'entitled to do anything' influenced the notion of travelling to teach abroad as standard fare.  

    Using a poignant career moment as a catalyst to re-invest in self, reset and move forward, brings home the idea that solid foundations of self-assuredness allow you to bring your whole self to the task at hand...every time.

    The audacity to confidently dream and live, in Black!

    1 min
  • 'Acting Up', a conversation with Martha
    On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Martha (@MarthaDaCosme) discuss formative and memorable moments of teaching in the UK and abroad.
    The discussion includes being unapologetically Black, the paradox of simultaneously being graded as 'inadequate' yet consistently achieving the highest grades in the school and what happens when the system doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain. Beyond this, the conversation highlights teaching in Black majority spaces, knowing when to walk away and understating how to 'apprentice yourself' for the role you want.
    Stay ready, don’t have to get ready...
    59 min
  • Ep 2 Teaser: 'Acting Up', a conversation with Martha
    On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Martha (@MarthaDaCosme) discuss formative and memorable moments of teaching in the UK and abroad.
    The discussion includes being unapologetically Black, the paradox of simultaneously being graded as 'inadequate' yet consistently achieving the highest grades in the school and what happens when the system doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain. Beyond this, the conversation highlights teaching in Black majority spaces, knowing when to walk away and understating how to 'apprentice yourself' for the role you want.
    Stay ready, don’t have to get ready...
    1 min
  • 'Bashment to Boardroom', a conversation with Chantelle
    On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Chantelle (@MsCocoLondon) look back on some of her most formative experiences of being a Black educator.
    A long time friend and accomplished teacher in her own right, Chantelle gives a brilliant recount of her educational experience to date.
    From talking about being profiled for assumed university education, to having a line manager casually confess after a few months that leadership had a 'secret' question mark on her suitability for the school based on her giving feedback that was deemed 'too honest' (read: taken personally), we chat about the impact of affirming words, intentional deeds and how the job isn't done until you've 'hoovered the whole house'.
    It's a great listen...
    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 1 Teaser: 'Bashment to Boardroom', a conversation with Chantelle

    On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Chantelle (@MsCocoLondon) look back on some of her most formative experiences of being a Black educator.


    A long time friend and accomplished teacher in her own right, Chantelle gives a brilliant recount of her educational experience to date.

    From talking about being profiled for assumed university education, to having a line manager casually confess after a few months that leadership had a 'secret' question mark on her suitability for the school based on her giving feedback that was deemed 'too honest' (read: taken personally), we chat about the impact of affirming words, intentional deeds and how the job isn't done until you've 'hoovered the whole house'.

    It's a great listen...

    1 min
  • Pilot

    When your teacher training provider sets up a series of networking events called ‘cock-up clubs’ (which were described both as ‘events focus[sed] on individual challenges that leaders have overcome that have informed their development as a successful leader’ and ‘meetings with successful leaders speaking about ‘their own career low points and how failure and despair can be turned around’), you'd think that the invitation to share your own stories of triumph and tribulations was a given... But what happens when the choice to share career low points and near misses is seen as an act of career sabotage? To Black educators, the inability to be vulnerable in professional spaces (like a staffroom) is akin to the butterfly effect. What to make of the consequences of decisions made or not made based on a feeling, an anecdote or an unsupportive workplace environment and we haven't even mentioned the additional tax on the mental health of Black educators. #EducatingWhileBlack is intended to be a starting point to share these (and other stories) in a ‘virtual staff room’ that is set up for Black educators (and run by a Black educator), with an understanding that there is an acute need to include more diverse voices in storytelling and this platform is there to both focus on the Black educator and provide them with an unrestricted opportunity to reflect on their experience. @Supermahrio

    5 min

About EWBpod - Educating While Black Podcast

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A place for Black educators to share their stories in a ‘virtual staff room', created and run intentionally by a Black Educator.